Prison time for Florida teen who beat teacher over Nintendo Switch would be ‘death sentence’: tearful mom - Mom playing the autism card. But will it work?

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The mother of the hulking Florida teen who beat his female teacher unconscious over a Nintendo Switch video game claimed prison time would be a “death sentence” for her convicted son.

Leanne Depa pleaded for leniency for the now-18-year-old Brendan Depa, who faces up to 30 years behind bars for slamming Matanzas High School paraprofessional Joan Naydich to the floor before kicking and punching her in the back and head more than a dozen times.

In her first public appearance since the February beatdown, the grieving mother Wednesday begged Naydich to request that the 6-foot-6 teenager be handed a lighter punishment.

“I am so sorry for what my son did and nobody should ever have to go through that,” Leanna Depa said on an appearance on NewsNation’s “Banfield” through tears.

“But at the same time, please consider that my son has had a hard life and he’s gone through so much trauma in his life. He has autism. Please show mercy to him.”

Brendan Depa pleaded guilty last month to beating Naydich over the video game when he was just 17, leaving her with five broken ribs, hearing loss and what she claims are ongoing cognitive problems.

The disturbing incident — and teachers’ futile attempts to stop the attack — was captured on the school’s surveillance footage.

Brendan Depa faces up to 30 years in prison for the brutal attack. Nigel Cook/News-Journal / USA TODAY NETWORK
Naydich has previously told NewsNation that she wants her attacker sentenced to the maximum of 30 years behind bars.

“I feel like if he gets sentenced to prison, it’s a death sentence for him. He’s scared. And to have your child call and cry and say, ‘I don’t want to die’ — it’s awful,” Leanne Depa said.

The mourning mom blamed a laundry list of mental disabilities and a history of childhood trauma for her son’s behavior — and questioned why he was even permitted inside the Florida public school.

Leanne Depa pleaded for leniency for her son during a NewsNation interview. NewsNation

Leanne Depa claimed that jail time would be a “death sentence” for her autistic teenager. Leanne Depa
Brendan Depa — who grapples with severe autism, ADHD, oppositional defiance disorder and reactive explosive disorder — was placed in the school by his intensive behavioral group home despite his time at an autism behavioral hospital just two years earlier, she said.

“I had always homeschooled him because he didn’t handle the school environment. I asked the group home, ‘Did he have to go to public school? Could he not do school online?’ And I was assured by them that all of their clients went to public school,” Leanne Depa said.

“I never thought he belonged in public school. I didn’t have a choice.”

Leanne Depa added that he should have never been near the Nintendo Switch during school hours and that a crisis team is typically called before professionals take the game away.

Naydich said she had never taken the game away from the teenager, but that he lashed out after another faculty member prohibited him from playing with it.

Brendan Depa’s behavioral issues, particularly his autism, do not constitute a defense in Florida, according to the mother.

Victim Joan Naydich said she wants her attacker to receive the maximum sentence of 30 years behind bars. David Tucker\News Journal / USA TODAY NETWORK
The teenager was initially charged as a juvenile before the federal raps were upgraded.

The troubled teen had three prior battery arrests before the assault on Naydich and was reportedly involved in a jail fight in September.

Brendan Depa is being held on a $1 million bond. His sentencing hearing will begin in January.

Here's a bonus for you, sick bastards.

 
Tbh I can sympathize with this guy. Also have severe (level 2) autism (extremely pronounced speech impediment), and am computer nerd. Also hated all my teachers and don't care about the random teacher he beat up.

I generally hate niggers but — maybe this one's OK

(Also had similar meltdowns in class but didn't attack teachers, just threw desks and shit)
 
Tbh I can sympathize with this guy. Also have severe (level 2) autism (extremely pronounced speech impediment), and am computer nerd. Also hated all my teachers and don't care about the random teacher he beat up.

I generally hate niggers but — maybe this one's OK

(Also had similar meltdowns in class but didn't attack teachers, just threw desks and shit)
A Sonic OC with severe autism?
 
Tbh I can sympathize with this guy. Also have severe (level 2) autism (extremely pronounced speech impediment), and am computer nerd. Also hated all my teachers and don't care about the random teacher he beat up.

I generally hate niggers but — maybe this one's OK

(Also had similar meltdowns in class but didn't attack teachers, just threw desks and shit)
Have you considered that you need to be more self aware and in control of your emotions? Maybe not in a "I believe I need to be sense", but more in the sense that maybe you need to live with all the normals around you in cooperative way rather then counter productive antagonism. I bet bigly you got put in therapy and you were asked to talk out your feelings and it was all a huge waste of time. Here's some tough love. Don't be such a faggot.
 
Tbh I can sympathize with this guy. Also have severe (level 2) autism (extremely pronounced speech impediment), and am computer nerd. Also hated all my teachers and don't care about the random teacher he beat up.

I generally hate niggers but — maybe this one's OK

(Also had similar meltdowns in class but didn't attack teachers, just threw desks and shit)

Have you tried not being a giant faggot
 
Tbh I can sympathize with this guy. Also have severe (level 2) autism (extremely pronounced speech impediment), and am computer nerd. Also hated all my teachers and don't care about the random teacher he beat up.

I generally hate niggers but — maybe this one's OK

(Also had similar meltdowns in class but didn't attack teachers, just threw desks and shit)
Chris Chan is that you?
 
Tbh I can sympathize with this guy. Also have severe (level 2) autism (extremely pronounced speech impediment), and am computer nerd. Also hated all my teachers and don't care about the random teacher he beat up.

I generally hate niggers but — maybe this one's OK

(Also had similar meltdowns in class but didn't attack teachers, just threw desks and shit)

Tbh I can sympathize with this guy. Also have severe (level 2) autism (extremely pronounced speech impediment), and am computer nerd. Also hated all my teachers and don't care about the random teacher he beat up.

I generally hate niggers but — maybe this one's OK

(Also had similar meltdowns in class but didn't attack teachers, just threw desks and shit)
You clearly weren't beat enough as a child
 
The mourning mom blamed a laundry list of mental disabilities and a history of childhood trauma for her son’s behavior — and questioned why he was even permitted inside the Florida public school.
Yeah, I'm questioning that part too.

In all honesty, he just needs to be sent to a mental hospital and drugged out drooling in a chair for the rest of his life.
Ok, do you want to pay for it? What is the point of housing this retarded ape for the rest of his life (in either prison or tard home)? Either put it down or throw it in a fucking zoo and make some money off admissions and a gift shop.
 
You clearly weren't beat enough as a child
> You clearly weren't beat enough as a child
Was beat every day as a child, reading this almost gave me a panic attack lmao (and neither beating nor coddling your children works. How your child will act in the future is based entirely on genetics, so your actual best bet is to breed responsibly with suitable parents)
 
Have you considered that you need to be more self aware and in control of your emotions? Maybe not in a "I believe I need to be sense", but more in the sense that maybe you need to live with all the normals around you in cooperative way rather then counter productive antagonism. I bet bigly you got put in therapy and you were asked to talk out your feelings and it was all a huge waste of time. Here's some tough love. Don't be such a faggot.
I actually was put in a shitty therapy program I got no use out of lmao

I don't have violent meltdowns nowadays (mostly because not in school anymore and don't live with druggie parents)
 
I actually was put in a shitty therapy program I got no use out of lmao

I don't have violent meltdowns nowadays (mostly because not in school anymore and don't live with druggie parents)
Sounds like your issues are not necessarily Autism then. Can't change the past. Just be better. Hypocrites that we are, we must all live in a society.
 
> You clearly weren't beat enough as a child
Was beat every day as a child, reading this almost gave me a panic attack lmao (and neither beating nor coddling your children works. How your child will act in the future is based entirely on genetics, so your actual best bet is to breed responsibly with suitable parents)
Touch grass retard then neck yourself
 
> You clearly weren't beat enough as a child
Was beat every day as a child, reading this almost gave me a panic attack lmao (and neither beating nor coddling your children works. How your child will act in the future is based entirely on genetics, so your actual best bet is to breed responsibly with suitable parents)
You are too autistic for AnN and that is saying something.
 
and neither beating nor coddling your children works. How your child will act in the future is based entirely on genetics, so your actual best bet is to breed responsibly with suitable parents

Actually based and true, tbh. The gorilla nigger is still a garbage person, that needs to be kept in a zoo.
 
Why the fuck are there 9 year old sex offenders? Those kids aren't even old enough to play Shadow the Hedgehog.

Oddest cast I have ever read about was a 5 year old boy - but this was a old case and was in part of a medical history book I was reading and the details where censored (thankfully).

Pornography and brown genetics.

There is a lot more to it than that but Porn is a major factor.

Also molestation and sexual assault. Kids will often copy what's done to them and do it to some other person.

Source: fucking bogans.

^ This, Kids process the world in ways adults don't do an part of that is enacting something that's happened directly to them that they can't understand - A kid I was in school with was quite as a mouse when adults where around with other boys he was loud an boystrous but with Girls he was an abusive little shit to the point he wasn't allowed to play in mixed groups (an in the early 90's that was really fucking rare), turns out he saw "one of his dads" beat his mum every night kids mum eventually got killed by that for lack of a better term Man and the kid got taken into care because there was no other living or known relatives he could be placed with.

With sexual stuff it's easy to imagine an adolescent brain really not understanding what's happening to them and not being able to process it acting it out in a effort to understand and ending up being arrested or taken into care - let alone if it's something chronic that's happening to them like a junkie parent pimping the kid out for drugs or simple family abuse and sadly the worse the abuse the wort the child acts out - especially in cases like this where there are other factors at play such as violence, theft etc.

One case that was in the news when I was a teen was a 16 year old brother impregnating one of his sisters who was 11 or 12 turns out He's been sexually abusing them since they where 6 and the family member they where living with (not the parents not sure why) but he was 16 when arrested - but it turns out he was getting abused by two people in his family - hell there was supposedly a HUGE spike in sexual health referrals during and shortly the pandemic because of this.

There are then the just pure mental case kids who even if they have a perfect home life, no abuse 100% nurturing environment etc who are just born wrong, who will comply around adults but are little boundary breaking terrors when left to there own devices but these kids are thankfully few an far between.

The sad thing is no matter how much we try and stop this it will continue to happen, and this will be a perineal problem for society be it through some wrong fuck getting a kick out of a power trip over someone younger an powerless, opportunistic fuckups etc the best we can do is try an help the kids who can be helped and minimise the effects on others and sometimes that's going to involve incarceration.
 
Apologies for the bump, but the tard in question has recently filed suit against the school district, and it's glorious. it's essentially just an endless list of all the shit he pulled, and then blaming the district for not magically fixing it. The cherry on top though is:





Also for anyone still interested he's due to be sentenced on Wednesday.
Jesus fucking christ I hate those irresponsible parent that are in complete denial on how their very reactive and agressive ape are unfit for society and are a danger for even well trained staff.
Btw remember me of a video that a friend shared long ago, we could only see a tard dragged by the police crying: "mom it hurt'' will the karen mom was filming it and complaing. According to the tl:dr karen post in how the school is ableist for not accepting her special kid. It seem the tard got a meltdown and threatened the teacher? or student with a pair of scissor. It was already long ago and I'm sure thing were omitted not accounted for in the story
So me and my sister were explaining my friend that if kid have violent behavior he shouldn't be in a regular class and my friend say this is ableism and autism shouldn't be a excuse to be excluded for normal class
 
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